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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,905, dated June 11,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Mason, of Jersey City, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement inWafer-Irons; and the following is declared to be a correct descriptionof the same.

attle-irons have heretofore been made of two cast-iron plates hingedtogether and mounted upon divided trunnions, so that the iron can beturned over within a ring that also supports said trunnions.

In baking wafers it is usual to employ two plates attached to handles ortongs, so that the requisite pressure can be employed for holding theplates against the expansion of" the batter while being baked to formthe wafers; hence the ordinary waffle-irons are not adapted to bakingwafers, because there is nothing to hold the plates together.

My invention consists in a wafer-iron made of two plates with dividedtrunnions and hinged together, in combination with a locking-handle,that serves for lifting the iron nhile removing one wafer andintroducing the material for another, and also for locking the twoplates together and securing them against the expansion of the latter,and for holding the plates while being turned over in the bearings ofthe ring.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a section of the saidwafer-iron.

The plates (0 and b are hinged together at c, and provided with dividedtrunnions c 0, en-

'tering notches or bearings in the metallic flanged ring it, and in thisring h there are notches, so that the hinges enter thereinto and formstops somewhat similar to the devices employed in a waffleiron. Thelocking-handle l is attached by a rivet, o, to the plate a, so as to beswung upon that rivet, and the wedging-lip 3 passes behind the adjacentedge of the plate I) to hold the parts together. The

locking'handle l clamps the parts a and b together because of theinclined or wedge shape given to the lip 3, and this also allows theparts to easily separate for opening the plates by the handle formed bythis combined lock and handle when turned back. The handle m i to thering it is made with an opening, 8, and bar t, so that an ordinarystove-lifter may be inserted into this opening 8, and act beneath thebar or edge t in lifting the wafer-iron from GEO. W. MASON.

WVitnesses GEO. T. PINO'KNEY, Guns. H. SMITH.

